Posted October 14, 20159 yr comment_5704632 Was just looking through WrestlingData and found out about Tamura's stay in TPW after he left UWFi and overlapping by several months with his start in RINGS. He had some matches there against opponents you would never expect: TPW @ Atami 1996/07/23 @ Atami, Shizuoka (Japan) Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata defeated Kiyoshi Tamura and Shocker TPW @ Maebashi 1996/07/27 @ City Gymnasium in Maebashi, Gunma (Japan) Sabu defeated Kiyoshi Tamura TPW @ Niigata 1996/09/19 @ City Gymnasium in Niigata, Niigata (Japan) Abdullah the Butcher defeated Kiyoshi Tamura Here is the full list. I assume there's no footage available of any of this stuff? Seems bizarre that he'd leave UWFi purportedly over not wanting to work with NJPW, then go do the job for guys like Sabu and Abdullah. Is this the only time in his career that he worked pro style?
October 14, 20159 yr Author comment_5704653 Yeah I did a spit take. I'm wondering if this is some kind of mistake in the database because that seems more believable to me than that those matches actually happened, hah.
October 14, 20159 yr Author comment_5704655 Cagematch lists a Shinobu Tamura instead of Kiyoshi, but he has no profile of his own: http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=48275 Looks like this is just a mistake on the part of the WrestlingData folks. Sorry for the absurd false alarm
October 14, 20159 yr comment_5704675 Can someone please look if there is something on tape? Not that I can't see how such a mistake might have happened, but especially Kenichi Yamamoto vs Tamura on 96/08/25 is intriguing.
October 15, 20159 yr comment_5704759 Yeah, that's a mistake. I've got the 10/8/96 show and Kiyoshi Tamura isn't on it.
October 15, 20159 yr comment_5704790 Thanks. I'm starting to think that this guy might have been a WAR undercarder in 1995
October 15, 20159 yr comment_5704792 Indikator, are you part of the Wrestlingdata team? Because I found a mistake there the other day.
October 15, 20159 yr comment_5704803 The emotional roller coaster I just went through learning that Tamura wrestled Sabu, Abby and Super Porky only to immediately find out that a mistake was made and it didn't actually happen was devastating.
October 15, 20159 yr comment_5704813 Yes I am one of them. You guys can always send me PMs with questions and corrections (or mails, once the mail server is back up). There needs to be a WAR handheld so I can find out if this Shinobu fellow worked there as well. Of course right now I can't find my Lynch list nor my 1999 mook. At least I recently scanned some old German newsletter so I have all early Picksi stuff from Mid-98 onwards.
October 15, 20159 yr comment_5704926 It would have been awesome if Tamura had refused to work with New Japan because it was a joke and not real wrestling and he ended up wrestling indies vs Porky, Sabu and Abby.
October 15, 20159 yr comment_5704948 The emotional roller coaster I just went through learning that Tamura wrestled Sabu, Abby and Super Porky only to immediately find out that a mistake was made and it didn't actually happen was devastating. Well, it's not QUITE the same but there is a Nobuhiko Takada vs Abdullah match on the aforementioned 10/8/96 Tokyo Pro show. It's as awful as you might imagine and ends with Takada pinning Abdullah while looking like he's trying to avoid making contact with Abdullah's body
October 16, 20159 yr Author comment_5704957 The emotional roller coaster I just went through learning that Tamura wrestled Sabu, Abby and Super Porky only to immediately find out that a mistake was made and it didn't actually happen was devastating. Well, it's not QUITE the same but there is a Nobuhiko Takada vs Abdullah match on the aforementioned 10/8/96 Tokyo Pro show. It's as awful as you might imagine and ends with Takada pinning Abdullah while looking like he's trying to avoid making contact with Abdullah's body oh my god http://vk.com/video14563695_165426560
October 16, 20159 yr comment_5705073 The emotional roller coaster I just went through learning that Tamura wrestled Sabu, Abby and Super Porky only to immediately find out that a mistake was made and it didn't actually happen was devastating. Well, it's not QUITE the same but there is a Nobuhiko Takada vs Abdullah match on the aforementioned 10/8/96 Tokyo Pro show. It's as awful as you might imagine and ends with Takada pinning Abdullah while looking like he's trying to avoid making contact with Abdullah's body oh my god http://vk.com/video14563695_165426560 That match is quite the collection of LOL and WTF moments. Butcher's verbal selling of the kicks (pretty sure that's the most damage he had taken in a match in ages), the pin attempts, the crowd actually cheering for Butcher at one point, the ref wearing a Juventus t-shirt. Back in the day I didn't know that Takada took the match for a lot of money to help out UWFi's struggling finances so I assumed he must have had YAKUZA DEBTS or something like that.
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